By: Bill Cushing – Oct. 2017 From time to time, my column will feature questions asked by readers regarding the world of TV. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have about TV at BillsTVTalk@gmail.com, and I’ll do my best to answer you and may feature your question in a future column. […]
By: Rick Bellanti – Oct. 2017 I am one to talk, as I became addicted to diet sodas back in 1986, when I first started seeing a nutritionist at a local hospital with weekly nutritional counseling sessions. I’m sure they didn’t know then, what everyone knows now about the health risks with drinking diet […]
By: Kathy Runge – Oct. 2017 Why are most of our elections in Lawrence a choice between who you can’t stand the least? I can endorse almost no one in the November elections. Much to my surprise, it is Dan Rivera vs William Lantigua in the mayoral race. Boy, was I ever wrong about Lantigua. […]
By: Don Jarvis – Oct. 2017 For the third year in a row Preserving Newbury is hosting Wreaths Across America in Newbury, Massachusetts. Wreaths Across America is a national nonprofit organization founded in 2007, which continues to expand their annual wreath-laying ceremony. The wreath laying ceremony began at Arlington National Cemetery and now stretches to […]
October 31, 2017 Loretta Cooke of 26 Overlook Drive in Methuen filed a restraining order against Valley Patriot columnist Dr. Bharani Padmanabhan claiming his columns mentioning her in the paper were “harassment” asking Judge Michael Ulharik for a restraining order against him and The Valley Patriot from writing about her or taking or publishing her […]
Highway Closure Will Have Major Impact on Evening Commute, Motorists Urged to Avoid the Area and Seek Alternative Routes ANDOVER — Chief Michael Mansfield reports that Andover Fire Rescue is on scene at a chemical fire on the northbound side of Interstate 495 that has resulted in the highway being closed indefinitely. At 11:36 a.m., Andover […]
By: Bharani Padmanabhan – Oct. 2017 In Whitman this week a confirmed heroin-abusing narcissist in an Audi rammed a Chevy into a truck. The woman driving the Chevy was crushed on the spot. After the crash the drug addict left the other woman dying and ran on foot to meet her drug dealer to purchase […]
By: Robin Desmet – Oct. 2017 Halloween—a holiday for witches, ghosts, vampires, and the much maligned black cat. But what is it about black cats that brings out the haters? The reputation of the black cat as an evil creature started back in Europe in The Middle Ages. In 1233, Pope Gregory IX claimed that […]
By: Paul Murano – Oct. 2017 Man is the only creature who is aware of his own impending death. We all know we will die, and as we grow more mature we realize the lighting speed at which this life flies by. It may occur naturally with age, or with a man-made disaster like in […]
There are nine members of the Methuen City Council. Every two years, voters across the city elect three councilors at-large and two councilors who represent each of the three districts; East, Central and West. The function of the city council is to approve the city budget, hire and fire the city attorney, approve the hiring […]
By: Tom Duggan – Oct. 29, 2017 Methuen residents living in the Forest Lake area of West Methuen woke up Sunday Morning to profane graffiti and Nazi Swastikas painted on cars and signs. Valley Patriot sources also say three cars near the Methuen line in the bordering Town of Dracut were also hit with hate […]
By: Rep. Linda Dean Campbell – Oct. 2017 Brewing discussions here in Massachusetts about taxes prompted by ballot question initiatives provide us an opportunity to look at the big picture. This opportunity is now energized by recent tax changes proposed at the federal level. Let the games begin! It is likely that Massachusetts will never […]
A large scale joint state and federal investigation has resulted in the arrest of 12 individuals in connection with a major heroin and fentanyl trafficking operation that brought large quantities of the lethal drugs into Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill, and Peabody. Friday’s arrests are the result of an extensive investigation involving Attorney General Healey’s Enterprise, […]
With all the bad publicity surrounding Lawrence’s crime and corruption problems, you might think that small businesses like A&M Auto Body would be resistant to moving into the city. But, Angelo Memmolo of East Boston says he sees Lawrence as a “great opportunity” to expand the auto body business his father started when he was […]